What's the damage?
Akenhead, R
What's the damage? - 2002 - Building 267(8246) 9 August 2002, 43(1) .
Discusses the difficulty of assessing damages owed on quantity surveyors' negligent cost underestimation. These damages should follow the basic rules of damages, namely that the employer should be entitled to all reasonably foreseeable losses caused by the negligence. Details matters which could reduce the loss amount to be recovered from the negligent quantity surveyor.
QUANTITY SURVEYORS
COST ESTIMATES
DAMAGES
What's the damage? - 2002 - Building 267(8246) 9 August 2002, 43(1) .
Discusses the difficulty of assessing damages owed on quantity surveyors' negligent cost underestimation. These damages should follow the basic rules of damages, namely that the employer should be entitled to all reasonably foreseeable losses caused by the negligence. Details matters which could reduce the loss amount to be recovered from the negligent quantity surveyor.
QUANTITY SURVEYORS
COST ESTIMATES
DAMAGES